Public Document Pack NORTH LONDON WASTE AUTHORITY THURSDAY, 24 JUNE 2021 AT 2.30 PM THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, CROWNDALE CENTRE, 218 EVERSHOLT STREET, LONDON, NW1 1BD AGENDA Enquiries to: Cheryl Hardman, Committee Services E-Mail: [email protected] Telephone: 020 7974 1619 (Text phone prefix 18001) Fax No: 020 7974 5921 SUPPLEMENTARY AGENDA 14. DEPUTATIONS (IF ANY) (Pages 3 - 32) The following deputations are attached: Annette Baker, Plastic Free Crouch End Monica Caruso, EnCaf Youth Delia Mattis, Black Lives Matter Enfield Nadia Amara, Chingford resident Carina Millstone, environmental campaigner Ben Griffith, Islington Environmental Emergency Alliance Helen Mayer, Haringey Labour Climate Action Helen Karamallakis, Edmonton Constituency Labour Party Aurora Yaacov, Enfield residents Dr Edward Tranah, local resident Councillor Emma Best AM, Londonwide Assembly Member & Endlebury Ward Councillor (Waltham Forest) Georgia Elliott-Smith, environmental engineer Felicity Premru, North London Trades Union and LESE TUC Environmental Sustainability and Just Transition Network SUPPLEMENTARY AGENDA ENDS Issued on: Wednesday, 16 June 2021 This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 14 For decades I have been involved in campaigns to do with the environment and incineration of waste has always been a major concern. There is no such place as away, and we do not know what is in the black bags which go into the incinerator. There could be paint, weedkiller, rat poison, toxins of many varieties, which then pollute the air. Energy is now being produced from renewable sources and it is not necessary to provide energy from burning waste. New technology which extracts recyclables from black bags – particularly plastics and metals – is essential if we are to move forward to a circular economy. We are asking that the NLWA pause and reflect on the necessity to enlarge the incinerator in Edmonton. The growing public awareness of unnecessary packaging, the realisation that our consumer economy is unsustainable, is resulting in stricter rules around reduction, reuse and recycling and in order to protect the climate, we have to put in place procedures which support people to change. This is where the money should be spent, not on enlarging incinerators. Taxpayers` (our) money must be spent wisely and technology used for the benefit of all. This outdated scheme has to be rethought. Annette Baker Community Lead, Plastic Free Crouch End Page 3 This page is intentionally left blank Page 4 From: Olivia Eken To: Cheryl Hardman Cc: Subject: Deputation Request NLWA AGM Meeting Date: 20 June 2021 22:00:42 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Beware – This email originated outside Camden Council and may be malicious Please take extra care with any links, attachments, requests to take action or for you to verify your password etc. Please note there have been reports of emails purporting to be about Covid 19 being used as cover for scams so extra vigilance is required. Dear Cheryl, I would like to register Monica Caruso, part of EnCaf Youth, a local youth climate action group to address the North London Waste Authority Meeting on Thursday 24th June, 2.30pm, under Item 14 - Deputations - on the Agenda. As a group of sixth formers, it is not possible for us to attend the meeting given the constraints with our school timetables. No member of our organisation is able to attend the meeting as we are either sitting school exams or in lessons during the time of the meeting. We kindly request to be able to submit our speech in the form of a pre-recorded video, spoken by Monica Caruso. As you can understand it is incredibly difficult for us as students to attend the meeting and hope that the video format will enable us to express our opinions at the session. Please let us know if this circumstance can be accommodated to. Monica Caruso- and myself Olivia Eken are the ones forming the deputation. Monica will be the individual performing it. Regarding the deputation, the points Monica is intending to make are: The impacts of the Edmonton incinerator expansion on the local community: Upper Edmonton has a population where 56% are from ethnic minorities in 2019. Upper Edmonton is also within the 10% most deprived wards in England. We fear the incinerator will disproportionately affect the population of the area who are predominantly from low economic backgrounds and ethnic minorities. Impacts on future generations The incinerator will continue to produce C02 emissions affecting the future of young people in the area. These emissions will contribute to the climate crisis and compromise the health of the population. Page 5 We ask for the pause and review for the expansion of the facility. If you require any additional information regarding the deputation please do not hesitate to ask me. I look forward to hearing back from you. Kind regards, Olivia Eken Page 6 From: Delia Mattis To: Cheryl Hardman Subject: NLWA AGM on the 24th June at 2:30pm Date: 21 June 2021 10:32:44 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Beware – This email originated outside Camden Council and may be malicious Please take extra care with any links, attachments, requests to take action or for you to verify your password etc. Please note there have been reports of emails purporting to be about Covid 19 being used as cover for scams so extra vigilance is required. Dear Cheryl, I would like to register myself Delia Mattis, Founder of Black Lives Matter Enfield, to address the North London Waste Authority Meeting on Thursday 24th June, 2.30pm, under Item 14 - Deputations - on the Agenda. The points I am intending to make are: Institutional and environmental racism - Black Lives Matter Enfield is calling for the plans to expand the Edmonton incinerator to be paused and for the North London Waste Authority to properly consult the people of Enfield. We believe it is racist planning that determines where these incinerators are allowed to exist. Incinerators are three times more likely to be built in deprived areas which are more likely to have a racially diverse population like Edmonton which is around 60% black, brown or other racial or ethnic group. Ella Kissi Debrah died in 2013, she lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south London and the recent coroner’s ruling that air pollution made a material contribution to her death, has sent shock waves through the black community in Enfield. Edmonton is already polluted from the North Circular Road, the expanded incinerator on top of this will make matters worse in terms of vehicles on the North Circular travelling to and from the plant as well as burning more rubbish. Health Inequality - Covid-19 has disproportionately affected Black and Brown communities. In Edmonton covid mortality rate is 40% higher than England average according to ONS statistics and is one of most deprived areas of UK, those in power should be choosing to break cycles of inequality and injustice not lock them in by building an even larger incinerator at the same site. Experts are now linking air pollution to Covid 19 deaths. The ONS has published a report on the link between long-term exposure to dirty air, severe symptoms of COVID-19 and a greater risk to deaths. This gives even more reason for black communities to oppose the plans. Kind regards, Ms Delia Mattis Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 I look forward to hearing from you. With best wishes, Nadia Amara Page 10 From: Carina Millstone To: Cheryl Hardman Subject: Deputation request- NLWA AGM on 24th June at 2:30 pm Date: 21 June 2021 14:36:24 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Beware – This email originated outside Camden Council and may be malicious Please take extra care with any links, attachments, requests to take action or for you to verify your password etc. Please note there have been reports of emails purporting to be about Covid 19 being used as cover for scams so extra vigilance is required. Dear Cheryl, I am writing to request to make a deputation at the NLWA AGM on the 24th June at 2:30pm. My name is Carina Millstone, and I would like to give the deputation in my personal capacity as an environmental campaigner, parent, and resident of South Chingford. The deputation concerns the plans to install Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) on the North London Heat and Power Project (the new Edmonton incineration) Specifically, and with reference to information provided by the NLWA under EIR, I intend to raise the following points: 1. The Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) 6th Carbon Budget (Dec 2020), identified the proliferation of incinerators in the UK as a key challenge in addressing climate change (not part of the climate solution). Key policy recommendations to UK government include: 'To prevent a major increase (in emissions), either a substantial fraction – potentially a majority – of the EfW plant pipeline will have to remain unbuilt, EfW fleet utilisation rates will have to fall, or else carbon capture and storage (CCS) will need to be installed on plants from the mid/late- 2020s onwards to mitigate the additional emissions.' ' For those plants not yet under construction, new energy-from-waste plants (and plant expansions) should only be constructed in areas confirmed to soon have CO2 infrastructure available and should be built 'CCS ready' or with CCS.' th 2. Since the 6 Carbon Budget, the decarbonisation ambition identified in the budget has been enshrined in legislation, with the government setting a legally mandated target of 78% reduction in emissions by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. 3. Information provided by the NLWA requested under Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) (https://www.nlwa.gov.uk/ourauthority/scheme-of- publications/request-information-about-potential-carbon-capture-and-storage) show that the proposed incinerator does not follow the CCC’s advice, and therefore runs contrary to the new national, legally enshrined emissions reduction target.